JOURNAL 



OF 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



Vol. 5 AUGUST, 1912 No. 4 



THE POSSIBLE ETIOLOGICAL RELATION OF CERTAIN 

 BITING INSECTS TO THE SPREAD OF INFAN- 

 TILE PARALYSIS! 



Bv Charles T. Brues, Biitiney Instilidiott, Harvard University, and Philip A. E. 

 Sheppaed, ]M. D., Special Medical Investigator for the Mass. State Board of Health, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Nothing has as yet been definitely sho-«T.i regarding the channels of 

 infection in acute epidemic poliomyelitis (infantile paralj^sis), though 

 much has been encountered of a suggestive nature in our earlier Massa- 

 chusetts studies. - 



Ow-ing to the frequent histories of insect bites of various kinds, it 



1 A Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Heahh, October, 1911, briefly ab- 

 stracted in the Monthly Bulletin of the Board for December, 1911, p. 338-340 (1912). 



2 LovETT, R. W. The Occurrence of Infantile Paralysis in Mass. in 1907. Boston 

 'Sled. & Surg. Journ., July 30, 1908. 



LoyETT, R. W. The Occurrence of Infantile Paralysis in ^lass. in 1908. Boston 

 Med. & Surg. Journ., July 22, 1909. Reprint in Monthly Bul- 

 letin of the Mass. State Board of Health, July, 1909. 



Emerson, H. G. An epidemic of Infantile Paralysis in Western Mass. in 1908. 

 Ibid. 1, c. Reprint Ibid. 1. c. 



LoyETT, R. W. The Occurrence of Infantile Paralysis in Mass. in 1909. Boston 

 :Med. & Surg. Journ., July 14, 1910. Reprint in :Monthly Bul- 

 letin of the ;Mass. State Board of Heahh. June, 1910. 



LoyETT, R. W. and P. A. E. Sheppard. The Occurrence of Infantile Paralysis in 

 Ma.ss. in 1910. Boston ISIed. & Surg. Journ., May 25," 1911. 

 Reprint in Monthly Bull. Mass. State Board of Health, JNIay, 

 1911. 



Rosexau, M. J., P. A. E. Sheppard, and H. L. Amoss. Anterior Poliomyelitis: 

 Attempts to Transmit the Disease to ^Monkeys by Inoculation 

 with the Xasal, Pharj-ngeal and Buccal Secretions of Eighteen 

 Human Cases. Boston Med. & Surg. Journ., ^May 25, 1911. 

 Reprint in Monthly Bull. IMass. State Board of Health, May, 

 1911. 



Sheppard, P. A. E. Acute Epidemic Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis) ; A Study of 

 the Epidemic in Springfield. ^lass., in 1910. Infantile Paralysis 

 in Mass. during 1910, pp. 9-5-140. (Boston, 1912.) 



Hammond, J. W. Jr., and P. A. E. Sheppard. An Investigation of the Blood in 

 Cases of Acute Epidemic PoUomj'elitis (Infantile Parah'sis). 

 Infantile Paralysis in Mass. during 1910, pp. 141-144. (Boston, 

 1912.) 



